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THE BEE: OMAHA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 24, 1921. Keserve Board Caused Decline in Prices, Charge Cotton Association Head Says Policies in Connection With Deflation "Cynical, Cruel And Inexcusable."" Washington, Aug. 23. Federal reserve board policies in connection with price and currency deflation are "cynical, cruel and inexcusable," and constitute "financial tyranny and commercial criminality," J. S. Wannamaker, president cf the American Cotton association, charged today before a joint Con gressional Agriculture Commission. The board's methods, he added, are "heaping up gold in the United States at the expense of all civiliza tion." , Speaking, he said, for agricultural producers, the witness asserted the federal board and banks were re sponsible for the general price de cline. The board's pressure still was being exerted upon "bankers who are afraid of their shadow, who may find all their loans called by the re serve banks any minute, and dare not disobey its orders," according to Mr. Wannamaker, who asked the tpmtnissioji to recommend legisla tion for general revision of the re serve board personnel. : He proposed that the personnel be composed of 12 members, nomi nated from the various districts as representatives of industry instead of banking, who should be appointed by the president and confirmed by the senate. Further, he suggested that the commission recommend the instant reduction in federal reserve lediscount rates to a basis of three and one-half per cent on liberty loan collateral. "The federal reserve banking sys tem, created to serve the people, by its administration, has made the peo ple servants of the system," he as sorted. "It's policy will require the American people to- pay with de flated dollars a national debt bor rowed in inflated dollars." Price declines that have been ef fected lately,-he declared, will not help consumers, because "they have left nothing for agricultural pro ducers to do but combine and reduce production so low in the future that prices will give us some margin of profit and let us pay our debts." Repetition of Crop .r allure r ui ctaca Seed Grain in the Volga Region Has Not Been Gathered. Riga; Aug. 23.-r(By The .'Asso ciated Press.) At least a partial repetition next summer of this year's crop failure in the Volga rr;i! nnur annfars inevitable, ac cording to official bolsheviki advices j and independent tnspatcnes irm Moscow. The Russian peasants arc said to be doing their utmost to fur nish a seed sypply for the stricken provinces, but with only a few weeks remaining before the latest possible date for sowing, an ex tremely small proportion of the seed grain needed has ben gathered in Russia and the foreign grain which has been ordered is slow in coming. The collection of the natural tax and return of seed loans up to August 19 produced altogether 1,067,000 poods (about 640,200 bushels), while for the Volga region alone there are needed 9,000,000 poods of grain, says a radio dis patch from Moscow. "Time does not wait, and our stride is too slow.' Some of the more radical writers in the Moscow newspapers charge that foreign aid is only make-believe and that at the same time France is arming Roumania and Poland, for a new attack on Russia. Bluffs High School Is Honored by War Branch Washington, Aug. 23. Nine high schools were officially recogn.zed by the War department as "honor" in stitutions and designated as such be cause of the "especially high stand' ards of military training and soldier ly discipline," maintained by them iii training mepibers of the junior units, reserve officers corps, lne schools are Chattanooga. Tenn.j Council Bluffs. Ia.; Crane Technical and the Schurz, Chicago; Gloucester, Mass.; Lincoln and Manual Arts, Los Angeles, Cal.; Northwestern, Detroit, Mich., and Rocktord, III. Congr cress Does Business Rapidly to Get Vacation Washington, Aug. 23. The senate and house resumed today their con sideration of business under high pressure in the expectation of de claring a 30-day recess late tomor row. Both were in session last night, ihe house until it had passed the ad ministration railroad funding bill and the senate until 11 -.15, when it had reached a point where it was ready to take a final vote upon re convening today on the shipping board deficiency bill carrying $48, 500.000. 7,000 Chiropractors at Unveiling of Palmer Bust Davenport, la., Aug. 23. More than 7,000 chiropractors from all parts of the country, attending the 16th annual convention here today, were present at the un'eiling of the D. .D. Palmer memorial bust. The sataue was erected by the chiroprac tors of the world as a tribute to the discoverer of this new science. The convention will be in session all cttk. The feature will be a mam month street parade Wednesday. W. J. Burns Sworn in Washington, Aug. 23. William J. Burns of New York was sworn in today as director of the bureau of investigation . of Department of , Justice, succeeding Williajn J. Flynn, who resigned last week. Where the Hopes of Every North Are Centered Ford Now Working for Lighter Locomotives , , (Continued From Pace One.) his trips of inspection over the 454 miles traversed by his railroad across the state of Ohio to the coal fields of West Virginia. He was not riding over the line in his private car sending for di vision superintendents and other of ficials at each division point He was actually hiking along haJf the time making a real inspection of the prop erty he was undertaking to operate. He found a train at Napoleon, where crews were feverishly at .vork pack ing oil waste about the axles. In three minutes he had acquired all the history of railroad methods in lubrication of car axles. He said nothing but the next day upon hi., return to Dearborn he dropped into the engineering department with all the general details for application of an oiling system to freight car axles which will call for oiling every three months. ' , Will Reduce Axle Size. "Not only will it save the expense of men to oil them but it will reduce the friction and consequently the pulling power necessary to get a train over the road," he explained. "And what is more, it is nothing more than application of the general principle of lubrication of automobile axles." Then the first time President Ford of the D., T. & I. got down onj his hands and knees, for close in spection of the axle' on a freight car he threw up his hands in holy horror. On the spot he made the prediction that in 10 years' time the "axle as big around as your head" would be a relic of so-called ante deluvian railroading. "We could take any one of these engines or cars and melt it down and make three out of it," he laughed at the time and already he has made good on that promise. "It took only a Jew weeks of man agement of the D., T. & I. to con vince the automobile manufacturer that the railroads' unbusinesslike system of accounting constituted as heavy a. stone about the railroads' neck as their backwardness in en-1 gineering. It was on the business end that he made the big "cleanup" in the D., T. & I. as he found it "Fired" Freight Solicitor. The freight solicitor who carried go'od ' cigars but no information about when one cf his trains would move was the first to go. Then he moved on the clerical force, spend ing thousands of dollars a month in a vain effort to keep track of the amount of money the line was losing. Legal departments, dealing chiefly in long drawn out controversies over damage claims, suffered under the Ford reorganization. "Keep the cars moving," was the only specific order he issued to the new president of the road. "If you cannot get the train over the road on scheduled time with one locomotive, put on two," was another bit of railroad heresy he in troduced, but it has put the road on a paying basis for the first time in its history. No Sunday Trains. Aside from the order placing all D. T. & I. employes under the $6 a day minimum wage rule, first ap plied in the Ford factories, the Ford innovation most interesting to the old-time railroaders was the observ ance of the Sabbath order. And what he has done to date towards shutting down his railroad en Sun day is nothing to what is con templated. Operation of a railroad on Sunday is all nonsense, according to the Ford idea. At present he is moving only perishable goods and in the near future he expects to have the traffic moving in such a fashion that from Saturday night until Monday morn ing not one single wheel will turn on the D. T. & I. system. Funeral of King Peter Attended by Vast Throng Belgrade, Aug. 23. (By The As sociated Press.) The funeral of the late King Peter was held today m the presence of vast throngs ct the people. Perfect order was maintained throughout the city during the ceremonies. Copjt1M: 1031: By th Chicago TrfbumJ Neighbors Doubt Mrs. NealYGuilt (Continued From Face One.) in the afternoon. She had made good progress in her perusal of the story. There was a mysterious telephone call to the Buck home, three long rings over a rural party line, just before the Neal women started from the Neal home. This was not heard by the Bucks, but it was heard by several of the neighbors and by the night operator at the Peru exchange who called the village marshall, J. C. Woodie, and told him she be lieved there was some one in dis tress out on the line, either at Bucks or Neals. The call was sent out, it is presumed from the Neal home. No one replied to central's response. Who Sent Phone Call. The puzzling question is: Did Mrs. Neal or Ava send in the call and then become panic-stricken at the thought of what the call Would re veal? Bth of them deny that a call was sent from their home. Or did Ben Neal, weik and faint from loss of blood, send in the call after he had been shot and was on the border of death -and unable to complete it? This is thought im possible, for the telephone was in the dining room some distance away and there were no blood clots leading from the room where his body was found in a welter of his own blood. The farm home of the Neals is located in the rough hills of the Mis souri river valley and is located on one of, the highest points. From it can be seen the Missouri river and the Missouri shore in the distance. The farm and home is an isolated one with an environment of almost abso lute solitude. In such a setting al most any kind of a crime could be committed without the danger of much of the incriminating circum stances being revealed. Butler Incident Forgbtten. So far as the injection of A. E. Butler of Lincoln into the case is concerned, there are few here who pay very much attention to it. Most of the persons familiar with the case believe he was eliminated when lie and Neal came together at Brown ville last spring. Some have the theory that Ben Neal wrote the but ler letter as a diary to refresh his memory and enlighten his attorneys, Kelligar and Ferneau of Auburn, in the event that Mrs. Neal would re vive the divorce proceedings that she had withdrawn a few weeks be fore in rebuttal of any testimony she would produce to his discredit in the marital relationship. Ava Marie Neal has been a student at the Peru Normal school. Her mother and Ava were desirious of leaving their farm and obtaining a residence in Peru, where they could live while Ava was attending school and had looked up a house a short time before the tragedy. It is well known that Neal preferred to live on the farm, although Mrs. Neal testi fied that he had expressed his wil lingness to go to Peru for the win ter and return to we farm in the spring. Blair Garage Man Killed When Auto Goes Over Bank Hurtling over an embankment on the river road north of Florence Monday night, a large touring car which he was driving instantly killed G. M. Antill, Blair garageman. The auto turned over, pinning Antill un der the steering wheel and break ing his neck. John Fisher, also of Blair, was thrown clear of the car and escaped injury. Red Cross Medical Head in Saloniki Dies of Burns Saloniki, . Greece, Aug. 23. Dr. Russell Stewart Wingficld of Rich mond, Va., medical head of the American Red Cross unit here, who wis seriously burned August IS, in a fire in the Red Cross child health clinic in Kalmaria park, died of his injuries Saturday. Schools to Open Sept. 5 Geneva, Neb., Aug. 23. (Special.) The city schools will open Sep tember 5 with prospects of the larg-1 est enrolment on record here. Side Taxpayer Banker Delegation Will Stop in Omaha Bankers from all points in the east and midwest will travel in two spe cial trains to attend the forty-seventh annual convention of the Amer ican Bankers' association at Los Ai geles October 3 to 7. The specials start from Chicago and will pick up large delegations at Omaha. The equipment will comprise sleepers, diners and observation cars of modern type, according to L. W. Wakely, general passenger agent cf the Burlington railroad, which fur nishes the trains. Walter W. Head of Omaha is a membc of the general committee on invitations and Arthur Reynolds, president of the Continental & Com mercial Bank of Chicago, is chair man of the committee on transporta tion. The delegations will stop in Omalia from 2 to-11 p. m. on Sep tember 27. , .. . . Motive Claimed Found For Murder of Broker Los Angeles, Cal., Aug. 23. When Arthur Burch and Mrs. Madclynn Obenchain face a jury here for trial on an indictment charging them with the murder or J. Belton Ken nedy, the state, it was announced here today, will endeavor to estab lish as the motive for the shooting of Kennedy that Burch was anxious to marry Mrs. Obenchain and that he removed Kennedy as the final ob stacle to the possibility of such a union. This announcement of the state's theory of motive was made by Malcolm MacLaren, special in vestigator for the district attorney, who has been shaping up the evi dence and preparing the state s case for trial. Omaha Day at State Fair At Lincoln Set. for Sept. 8 "Omaha day" at the Nebraska State fair will be celebrated Septem ber 8, according to information re ceived by the Omaha Chamber of Commerce. Plans for a record at tendance of Omahans at Lincoln on that day are under way by local commercial organizations. Officials of Omaha clubs and or ganizations will meet at the Cham ber of Commerce Thursday noon to discuss arrangements for a large representation of Omahans to the state fair. Officials of Ak-Sar-Ben will give paper pennants to motorists which will permit them to park their cars in a guarded area in the fair grounds. Admission to the fair will be 75 cents, a similar charge to be made for automobiles.. Woodrough to Go to Fargo. Judge Woodrough of the federal court will go to Fargo, N. D., Sep tember 5, to sit with two other fed eral judges, one of them a circuit judge, in two cases where constitu tionality of laws are under question. Cigarette It's Toasted Four Vocational Schools New Plan Of Vets' Bureau Universities to Be Established In Cantonments in East, Middle-West, South and On Pacific Coast. Washington, Aug. 23. Four United States vocational universities one in the cast, the middle west, the south and on the Pacific coast- will be established in abandoned army cantonments by the veterans' bureau under a new policy for :he rehabilitation of former servicemen, announced to iiMit by Director r orbes. The new noliev. Colonel Forbes said, was worked out with the ap proval ot President rlarding to cor rect "the system of farming out vo litional natients." and oroDerlv re habilitate the approximately 94.00C men now being trained. Colonel Forbes said he would leave u'itliin 10 rlavs for an illSOection tour of advantageous sites for the pro posed universities in the definite sec tions of the country but expected to annminpp the location of the first in stitution before his departure. Choice of localities, lie added, would De made upon approval of the president. Present plans, he said, call for the firct ,,nivpritv tr r.tart work within 90 days with about 2,000 men in at tendance. Courses will De orterea m masonry, architecture, plumbing, nrintincr pncrravinir. book binding, electrical work, carpentry and steam fitting, and such agricultural lines as animal husbandry, dairying and for estry. No legislation will be necessary for the inauguration of the new policy of vocational training, Colonel KV.rhpc aesprted. nor will the cost be greater than under the present sys tem of decentralized instruction. While the universities will not be rifrvr,nrfintr bp added, farm orod- ucts can be raised to provide partially for the subsistence ot me men. Legionnaires Visit y "Their Shell Holes" Rheims, France, Aug. 23. (By The Associated Press.) Many mem bers of the American Legion dele gation left the main party on the trip over the battlefield after the ceremony at Verdun yesterday to visit. "mv old shell hole" in the Ar gonne. The Americans on the trip passed through Mont Faucon and Romagne on their way to Rheims. At the Romagne cemetery, where several thousand Americans are buried, the legionnaires held a spe cial service. School children from Verdun and the countryside brought flowers. One group, headed by Franklin D'Olier, firs national commander of the. : .American Legion, accompanied Marshal .Eoch , to Gorcy, where the American Legion service . was read over the grave of the jnarshal's son. Another group .went to Decourt, where a son of former Premier Vi viani is buried. Here a similar serv ice was held. ; Townley Would Appeal From Conviction -in Minnesota Washington, Aug. 23. A. C. Townley, president of the Nonpar tisan league, and Joseph ' Gilbert, manager of the league's organization deoartment, today filed notice that on October 10 they would ask the supreme court to consider an appeal from the state courts of Minnesota in which they were convicted of hav ing opposed enlistments and the pur chase of Liberty bonds during the war and of having; declared the United. States would soon be bank rupt, urging that , the money be in vested in Nonpartisan league grain elevators. Deputy Sheriffs Killed By Men Shooting at Cars Jellico, Tenn.. Aug. 23. Deputy Sheriffs C. P. McDonald and Andy Wnrttiam wpro killed late Mcnday six miles from here on the Jellico Lafollctte !oad when, it is claimed, they attempted to arrest Fred Jones and Virgil Reno. Jones and Reno, with two women, according to authorities, had been on the road all day shooting at passing automobiles. Jones and Reno were arrested later and lodged in the Jellico jail. Precautions against mob violence have been taken. our Fall i i in Our Standard of Quality at-- . f ill) n " A i Delcctive Beats Death 5 Minutes Detective Trcglia beat death by five minutes in a trip today to the honie of Paul Holzappel, 2018 Martha street. He made the trip on a call from Ilolzappcl's son, Hans, who phoned the police station that his father in tended to commit suicide. At the home Detective Trcglia found Holzappel pacing the floor. On a table in the center of the room was an alarm clock set for 12 o'clock, rosary beads, a Bible, a lighted candle and a razor. According to the story told Treglia, Holzappel intended to kill himself when the alarm went off. Treglia arrived five minutes be forehand. Holzappel was taken to Central station and later" to the county jail, where he was said to be demented. Eskimos Execute One Without Trial Strangulation Is Method Used Two Executioners Under Arrest. Ottawa, Aug. 23. A strange story of the course of justice in the Cana dian northland which resulted in the summary execution of an Eskimo by strangulation has been brought hci by the Royal Canadian mounted police. The victim of the unwritten law, cne Ahkak, was himself a murderer, police said, and adjudged by his fel low villagers in Konghermuet, an Eskimo colony on Prince Albert sound, as dangerous to the com munity. In the summer of 1919, the report reads, Ahkak murdered one Aglue tuk. Shortly afterward Ahkak made a hunting pact-with Olepsekak by which they were to share for tunes and the wife cf the former. In March, 1920, when the hunters re turned to their base, the Eskimos of Konghermuet, both men and women, met Ahkak. Seemingly aware of their intent, Ahkak told them of a deer skin line outside his hut which would serve their purpose. It was with this line that Ahkak was duly strangled, and two Eski mos, Kahahovi and Amokuka, charged with being chief actors in the drama, were arrested last March by Corporal E. H. Cornelius and Constable J. Brockie of the mounted police. They will be ,held in Herschel Island over the winter and will be brought out for trial next spring. Ambition for Stage Blamed for Divorce Ambition on the part of Mrs. Adeline Kellstrom for a stage and operatic career blasted their happy home, Alvin F. Kellstrom, 3827 North Eighteenth street, asserted in a petition filed yesterday in district court. I Mrs. Kellstrom filed a petition for divorce several days ago, charging she was compelled to chop wood, and that her husband failed to keep the house warm enough for their child, Carl Albin, 2 1-2 years old. "TTvrarnliv" Tntprvpnpe in Irish Peace Negotiations Dublin, Aug. ZX (By The Asso ciated Press.) "The Hyrarchy," as the Roman Catholic church is known in Ireland, has intervened in the Irish peace negotiations. Rev. Edward Mulhorn, lord bishop of Dromore, came to Dublin tonight with a message from the "highest authority" which he delivered to Eamon De Vafera and the other Sinn Fein leaders. There were long con sultations over the message. Asked whether the message came from "the cardinal," meaning Cardi nal Logue, the primate of Ireland, a priest who accompanied Monsig nor Mulhorn replied in the neg ative. This was considered in some circles here as possibly meaning that Rome had intervened. Prohe Into Alleged "Coffin" Trust Will Be Started Chicago, Aug. 23. A nation-wide investigation into profiteering by un dertakers and an alleged "coffin trust" was announced today through the offices of Charles F. Clyne, dis trict attorney. Mr. Clyne was in Washington today and went fiom there to New York to secure infor mation on the proposed campaign. Suit $395t-$495t sk. ft . mmmr f 3 CUU II 73U 5 DO "'to u Phenomenal Values in Every Price Range v Smart Wear df 'Women New Location 1621 Farnam Street Preparations ior Armament Parley Well Under Way American Government Defin ing Principles and Collect ing Data to Guide Representatives. Ily Tlio AHtmrinlril Prt. Washington, Aug. 23. While dip lomatic formalities of the disarma ment conference move fonward with deliberation, the American govern ment is at work defining principles and collecting information , which will guide its representatives at the council table. ' Considerable progress " is under stood to have been made both to ward preparation of plans and data for the American commissioners and toward a canvass of the diplomatic field to determine what interna tional problems are to be considered within the scope of the conference. Both the army and the navy have taken an extensive part in the gov ernment's preparations. Meantime, although the conference has become an assured fact through the informal acquiescence of all in vited powers, the periunctory story cf formal diplomatic exchanges con tinues to hold the center of ths stage so far as surface developments are concerned, and to be the theme of all available official comment. The formal acceptance of Great Britain reached the State department today. Formal acceptance from Japan, Italy and France are yet to come. It has not beei. revealed what steps may have been taken diplomatically to secure agreement as to the scope of the conference, but .the nature of the formal replies are taken gener ally to indicate that negotia tions are entirely separate from the semi-public formal exchanges over the actual assembling of the dele gates. It is understood that the' ten dency has been to hold discussions of scope in an informal status in order to facilitate a free exchange of views. The senate under an agreement reached tonight will vote not later than 12:30 tomorrow on an amend ment to a deficiency bill carrying $200,000 for expenses of the disarma ment conference as well as on a proposal to direct American delegates to the conferences to demand open sessions. The Best of French Gloves Trefousse slip-on and strap wrist glace kid gloves with contrasting embroideries in the most desirable Fall shades, $5.50 and $7 a pair. Short kid gloves in black, white, brown, navy and pastel $3.75, $4.25, $4.50 a pair. . Lowest Prices for All Linen Handkerchiefs Plain linen with quarter inch hems are 25c and 35c. Embroidered initials with narrow hems, all linen, 50c and 60c. Linen handkerchiefs with colored hems, 60c. Children's Gowns $1.49 Slipover and long sleeve styles of muslin and crepe. Reduced to $1.49. Second Floor &inpson,Mra & Co. The Omaha Bee O'CLOC . i. I...- v I. Ex-Foot Ball Star Is Held for Fraud Long Beach, Cal., Aug. 23. Ralph E. Capron, former foot ball , star of the University of Minnesota and later a professional baJe ball player , in Pittsburgh and Philadel-' rhia and B. Vedelcr, who was said V -to have represented himself as an oil operator, were arrested here to day on warrants from South Bend, Washington and Bathkecp, N. -D., charging the defrauding of - banks through the issuance of .worthless checks. ' An operative of a private detective agency, who made the arrests, de clared charges against the men in other states, including Kansas. Wis consin, Mississippi and Texas, in- V 111 V I. u illU(;iu m'la which a total of not less than $20,000 was obtained.-' i r . T.I ... I. l..k.. -.( I vaprou was sam iu uc uiumvi ui - George Capron, former, all Amer ican fullback at the University of Minnesota and later high school foot ball coach here. Iowa Editors Sing Praise . Of Omaha in Letter to C. of C. What Iowa editors think of Oma ha and Nebraska may be, gathered from a letter received by Montagu Tancock, manager of publicity for the Chamber of Commerce. : "We fellows from Iowa certainly had a good time in Omaha and en joyed your hospitality. You know we people here in Iowa used to think Nebraska and Omaha' belonged in, or were a part of, our back yard, but of late we have moved you all around in front with the rose bushes and flower beds." . The letter . was signed by E. O. Stevens, president of the Iowa Press association. $200,000 Appropriated To Enforce Packer Bill Washington. Aug. 23. An appro-', priation of $200,000 was authorized bv the senate last night' to enable, F the secretary of agriculture to pro vide clerical and other assistants for the enforcement of the packers' con trol act. Rail President Dies Tuscon, Ariz., Aug. 23. Epes Randolph, president of he Arizona Eastern and the " South Pacific De Mexico and one of the pioneer rail load men of the southwest, died here late tonight. Bath Rugs ' for $2.38 Large rugs with Oriental patterns. Heavy "Del feld" rugs. White rugs with Greek -'key border. Blue rugs in , various, styles. Choice of any rug Wednesda y for $2.38." Linen Section Physicians and Surgeons , &oap; .thre.e cakes for 25c. Toilet Goods Section Lace Hose $1.69 a pair White and African brown with lisle tops and double soles, fashioned leg, seamless foot. A quality that wears un usually well. $1.69 a pr. 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